{"id":948,"date":"2007-08-06T21:57:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T01:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2007-08-06T22:54:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T02:54:46","slug":"mexicans-worry-that-central-american-migrants-will-take-mexican-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/mexicans-worry-that-central-american-migrants-will-take-mexican-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexicans worry that Central American &#8220;migrants&#8221; will take Mexican jobs, OH My! Wait until Cynthia Tucker hears about this!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like home&#8230;.Mexicans worry that Central American illegal alien &#8220;migrants&#8221; will take Mexican jobs. Hmmmm&#8230; they sound like a bunch of nativist, bigoted, xenophobic extremeists! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/year\/2007\/commentary\/works\/tucker03.html\">Right Cynthia?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>( If you missed my reply to Cynthia Tucker last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=142\">I link it here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Migrants mistreated in Mexico, report says <\/strong><br \/>\nChris Hawley<br \/>\nArizona Republic<br \/>\nMexico City Bureau<br \/>\nFeb. 6, 2007 <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mexico&#8217;s human rights agency has accused officials in Sonora of mistreating illegal Central American migrants, saying detainees were jammed into overcrowded cells and denied food and water for hours during a crackdown last year. <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many Mexicans empathize with these Central American travelers. But other people, especially in southern states like Chiapas, fear that Central Americans will eventually begin settling in Mexico and taking Mexicans&#8217; jobs. They also are worried about crime brought by the Mara Salvatrucha, Central American gangsters who control the immigration routes. <\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 14, new President Felipe Calder\u00f3n announced expanded security measures to stem the flow of Central American migrants. They include new police task forces along the Chiapas-Guatemala border, an overhaul of Mexico&#8217;s visa program for seasonal farmworkers, and inspections to make sure Central Americans are in Mexico legally. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have the firm conviction that we can achieve a secure border and, at the same time, guarantee the human rights of all,&#8221; Calder\u00f3n said in a speech in Chiapas. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Here in Sonora, Central American migrants are an afterthought,&#8221; said Noemi Peregrino Gonz\u00e1lez, director of the Nogales, Sonora, Migrant Support Committee. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lack of interest in their rights and a lack of resources to deal with them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>READ the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/arizonarepublic\/news\/articles\/0206migrantrights.html\">from the Arizona Republic here.<\/a><br \/>\n( Note- from the above linked news report: <em><strong>Mexico deported 179,345 people last year<\/strong>, most of them Central Americans.<\/em> Note again from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ice.gov\/pi\/news\/factsheet...plishments.htm\">ICE stats<\/a>:  <em><strong>ICE removed more than 186,600 illegal aliens from the country in FY 2006, <\/strong>a record for the agency and a ten percent increase over the number of removals during the prior fiscal year&#8230;)<\/em><br \/>\nFinally, the U.S. has deported more people than has Mexico&#8230;the first year since I have been keeping track!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like home&#8230;.Mexicans worry that Central American illegal alien &#8220;migrants&#8221; will take Mexican jobs. Hmmmm&#8230; they sound like a bunch of nativist, bigoted, xenophobic extremeists! Right Cynthia? ( If you missed my reply to Cynthia Tucker last year, I link it here.) Migrants mistreated in Mexico, report says Chris Hawley Arizona Republic Mexico City Bureau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}